I write a lot about horse protection
issues, especially pertaining to wild horses,
and have for many years, but I don’t ride,
never have, never wanted to, and will freely
admit that what I know about the practical
aspects of horsekeeping is chiefly jackdookey––i.e.
the stuff I shovel each morning.

Charles “Goat Man” McCartney,
97, died on November 15 in Macon,
Georgia. Recounted New York Times obituarist
Robert McG. Thomas Jr., “According to
research by Darryl Patton and Jimmy
Hammett, who collaborated on a 1993 Goat
Man video and a 1994 Goat Man book,
McCartney grew up on a farm outside
Sigourney, Iowa, where he was considered
such an odd child that the family goats were
about his only true friends. That helps
explain why he took off at 14, married a 24-
year-old Spanish knife-thrower, served as
her exhibition target for a couple of years,
then returned to Iowa and married at least
twice more. The last marriage ended when
he sold his goat-weary wife for $1,000 to a
farmer she’d already grown sweet on.” He
was by then already making frequent long
treks with 30-odd goats and a goat-drawn
wagon, selling postcards of himself and
passing himself off as the Second Coming for
a time in north Georgia until skeptics tarred
and feathered him. He continued preaching
and herding goats along rural roads between
Iowa and Georgia until 1968, when a gang
severely beat him and cut the throats of eight
of his goats at Signal Mountain, Tennessee.
He spent most of the rest of his life living
with his goats and a son, Albert Gene, who
predeceased him, in an old school bus near
Jeffersonville, Georgia.

NEWBERRY, Florida– – Jupiter,
the three-year-old tiger who on October 8
killed trainer Charles Edward Lizza, 34, as
described on page one of the November ANIMAL
PEOPLE, struck again on November
13, killing co-owner Doris Guay, 58.
Guay and her husband Ron Guay,
61, exotic cat handlers for 40 years, were
unable to hold Jupiter back as he pounced and
savaged Lizza, who had raised the tiger
almost from birth. Neither was Ron Guay able
to save his wife, who reportedly rarely ventured
outside during the six weeks after
Lizza’s death.
The Guays had performed together
as Ron and Joy Holliday since he was 14 and
she was 11. Lizza joined them in 1992, after
they had shared billings for about four years
with the Tommy Hanneford Circus.

YORK, U.K.––Convicted Animal
Liberation Front arsonist Barry Horne, 46, in the
62nd day of a hunger strike, was on December 8
in critical condition and reportedly close to lapsing
into a terminal coma.
Medical authorities said he had passed
the point of being able to make a full physical
recovery several days if not weeks earlier, and
that even if he broke the hunger strike this late,
his prognosis for survival would be shaky.
Horne undertook the strike, he said, to
protest the refusal of the Labour government led
by Prime Minister Tony Blair to call a Royal
Commission inquiry into laboratory animal use.

NEAH BAY, Wash.; TOKYO– –
Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society celebrated Thanksgiving
ashore, tied at dockside in Friday Harbor.
A three-month symbolic blockade of
Neah Bay by his big blue boat, the Sea
Shepherd III, and his little black boat, The
Sirenian, kept the would-be whale-killers of
the Makah Tribal Commission bottled up in
port until after winter seas made just rowing a
hand-hewn wooden canoe life-threatening, let
alone trying to harpoon a gray whale from it.
The Sea Shepherd vessels didn’t
actually keep anyone from coming in or going
out of the harbor, but just knowing they were
there visibly grated the Makah would-be
whalers’ nerves.

Hot water
Following is a letter which was
published by both the Malaysia Star and the
Straits Times:
I was halfway through my plate of
chicken rice the other day at a roadside stall
near a school in Jalan Sentul, Kuala Lumpur,
when a young, clean-looking, half-starved
stray dog approached my table, wagging his
tail. Without a moment’s hesitation, I
offered the dog some of my food. Then, to
my horror, a woman whom I found out later
was the shop assistant suddenly appeared
with a bucket of boiling hot water and doused
it all over the unsuspecting animal. Fuming, I
turned to the woman and ticked her off in the
strongest possible terms. The other customers,
who had kept quiet until I stood up,
echoed their disapproval as well. The woman
remained nonchalant about the whole affair.
She tried to justify herself by saying that she
was bothered by the dog’s fur––though she
has three cats as pets––and then claimed the
water in her bucket was only half hot.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – – Margaret
Kolar, manager of the San Francisco Bay National
Wildlife Refuge at Redwood City, California, told
Marilee Enge of the San Jose Mercury-News i n
November that due to the November 3 passage of
the California Anti-Trapping Initiative, she has
indefinitely postponed a scheduled trapping program
which was supposed to protect endangered species at
the refuge––even though one of the framers of the
initiative question, Humane Society of the U.S. vice
president Wayne Pacelle, said the program wasn’t
affected.
“If [leghold trapping] is the only option, it
is appropriate for the protection of endangered
species,” Pacelle said.

This is our ninth annual report on the budgets, assets,
and salaries paid by the major U.S. animal-related charities,
listed on the following pages, together with a handful of local
activist groups and humane societies, and some prominent
organizations abroad, whose data we offer for comparative
purposes. Statistics from foreign organizations are stated in
U.S. dollars, at 1997 average exchange rates.
Most charities are identified in the second column by
apparent focus: A for advocacy, C for conservation of habitat
via acquisition, E for education, H for support of hunting
(either for “wildlife management” or recreation), L for litigation,
N for neutering, P for publication, R for animal rights, S
for shelter/sanctuary maintenance, V for focus on vivisection
issues, and W for animal welfare. The R and W designations
are used only if a group makes a point of being one or the other.

The Texas Department of Health has honored
Primarily Primates for having “the best-landscaped
facility” under TDH jurisdiction. Primarily
Primates is recognized as a TDH facility because it
houses some retired laboratory primates under contract
from TDH.
The San Francisco Zoo has recognized the
late Carroll Soo-Hoo, who died in June at age 84,
with a plaque at the zoo’s gorilla exhibit. Beginning in
1958, Soo-Hoo and his wife Violet donated more than
40 animals to the zoo, including the founding members
of the gorilla colony.

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